Harvard Tapped to Help Reform Antigua’s Public Sector
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has enlisted Harvard University to support a new training programme aimed at improving public sector efficiency.
Developed with UWI’s Professor C. Justin Robinson, the day-release initiative will target senior civil servants and focus on governance and accountability.
Browne said even highly educated staff often lack experience in effective work environments, calling the reform “long overdue.”
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None amount of Harvard university tapping can change Antigua public sector, not when wordsmith con men are elected for their ability at speaking the queens english flawlessly to be misconstrued as academic and leadership material, that continue to nurture the destructive cultural mileau that permeate Antigua society because of years of a one family political dictatorship, the Antiguan people need some social engineering exercises like talk shows on the media, even though it appears as though there is talk shows , they are always bias to one political party, the nation needs help to build it civics and constitutional awareness.
@Eldread,
I would disagree with you if this was a genuine endeavor. You are so right.
It’s interested that the photo article is of the meeting after which Harvard turned there backs on Antigua and Barbuda.
Harvard can’t help with people who obtain and hold their jobs as a result of party affiliation who are not trainable.
This is just another smoke screen to hide incompetence laziness and a dysfunctional system
The management and administrative systems left by the Colonialists are still being used, overseen by Political party hacks who runs the show.
In addition three generations of a political party connected workforce, many with academic degrees from diploma mills are being called highly educated.
Majority of the graduate degrees earned so far this year are from online diploma mills. Only in the Caribbean are these people considered highly educated .
Any Harvard effort, should they choose to help is likely to be ineffective. Why?
It would require merit based hiring and scrapping the politically driven system of delivering municipal services.
Such a change would not be acceptable to the politicians.
Hiring today includes projects the candidates has to deliver. Several rounds of interviews before a candidate gets short listed.
AI is writing resumes and AI is reading resumes. Recruiters are funding their candidates in LinkedIn. In Antigua, LinkedIn is the Minister.
It would require a workforce being merits based, and scrapping the party affiliated seat warmers.
I doubt that the Prime Minister is ready for such a thing.
It sounds good to say he is bringing in Hanna, and now Harvard
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